The first experimental attempt to create a Max for Live/Ableton set-up that can accompany an improvised Doina performance harmonically, be expanding upon the root note of each chord and than expanding these notes to around the particular mode at that moment leading to a digital/shtetl squall...

Doina (Max For Live Take 3)

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Pinata Vandals were formed by Hermann Newman in 2012 as a collaborative music project between friends. Newman brought together musicians from different parts of England, inviting them to record and contribute to his own original material.  Their first album ‘Birthday Cake’ features an 8 piece band fronted by vocalist Thelma Deaf and includes a line up of Guitar, Bass, Drums, Synthesizers, Woodwind, Violin and Vocals.  Newman’s aim was to create a band that could experiment in a wide variety of musical genres and the band’s sound is characterised by a disjointed concoction of Rock, Electronica, Dub Reggae, Salsa, Funk, Jazz and Experimental Noise. 




Composer Ejnar Kanding (b. 1965) is internationally known for his unique colourful sound, where the electronic and acoustic are united in complex textures, physical energy and delicate simplicity. To him, music should not embellish, but be a realm of fantasy. A journey into the ambiguous – a hall of mirrors. Kanding originally got his degree in composition and musical theory at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen in 1993, followed by studies at IRCAM in Paris and with Professor Lev Koblyakov in Jerusalem in 1994 and 95, but has since his debut concert from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1996 specialized himself in composing music for computer and instruments. This has led to an extensive use of the software MaxMSP in the development of his works and as an instrument in live performances. Despite this obsession his focus is never the electronic experiment, but always the musical expression, form and phrase.
The way Kanding uses the digital mixing console and MaxMSP as an instrument is pioneering the new assignment as a musician which is known as live electronics or sound direction. His virtuosity in this field has led to numerous performances of own works or others of both improvised and written music with various groups, for example, works by Saariaho , Nono and Stockhausen; and ensembles as Cikada (NO), Ars Nova (SE), Jack Quartet (NYC), Transit ensemble (NYC) and Adpater (DE).

In addition to being a clarinetist and producer I’m also a PhD researcher studying how SoundCloud shapes the ways electronic musicians learn how to produce. Using a range of methods, my work investigates the social and musical practices of musicians online and offline to understand the connections between social media and how electronic producers, and in particular beat makers, learn how to express themselves musically as both individuals and as part of a wide scene.

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Doina (Max For Live Take 3)

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